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ἕλειος , ον (α, ον Ar.Av.244 (lyr.), Dsc.4.52): (ἕλος):—
A.of the marsh or meadow, ἕ. ὕδωρ marsh-water, Hp.Aër.10; ἕ. δάπεδον the surface of the meads, Ar.Ra.352 (lyr.).
2. growing or dwelling in the marsh, “δόναξ” A.Pers.494; τῶν Αἰγυπτίων οἱ ἕ. Th.1.110; βίος ἕ. Arist.PA 693a15; [ζῷα] ἕ. ib.674b31; “σχοῖνος” Dsc. l.c.; ἀκτή Ps.-Dsc.4.173; ἕλειον, τό, = asparagus, Gloss.
II. Ἑλεία, ἡ, title of Artemis in Cos, Schwyzer 251B5.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (4):
    • Aeschylus, Persians, 494
    • Aristophanes, Birds, 244
    • Aristophanes, Frogs, 352
    • Thucydides, Histories, 1.110
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